Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 402 Joining the Team, Five Years

"This is the barracks of our 12th Division. Most of the members who do not have residences in Seireitei usually choose to live directly in the barracks."

"You mentioned before that you wanted to challenge for the position of Seat Officer, so once you officially become a Seat Officer, we will arrange new accommodation for you."

"However, all of this will have to wait until you new members have been in service for a month and have a full understanding of the operation of our Twelfth Division before you can formally apply for a challenge."

"As for the positions in the Technology Development Bureau, they can only be appointed by the director himself."

Inside the 12th Division barracks, Lieutenant Nemu personally led Luca, introducing him to everyone.

Although his attitude remained indifferent, it made the other graduates who joined the team at the same time truly envious.

However, Luca himself didn't really care what his fellow teammate thought; he was only focused on understanding and absorbing the information he needed.

According to Nemu Kurotsuchi, although the Technology Development Bureau is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Twelfth Division, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, the captain of the Twelfth Division, also serves as the director of the Technology Development Bureau.

However, there are actually some differences between the two.

The most obvious point is that the 12th Division itself, as one of the Gotei 15, the largest violent organization in Soul Society, is essentially still based on force.

In reality, many team members did not hold any official positions in the Technology Development Bureau, or if they did, they were only responsible for some logistical and miscellaneous tasks.

In contrast, the Technology Development Bureau is a more purely technical department.

With few core personnel, all benefits, including power, funding, and other aspects, are measured solely by technological achievements. Whether or not one can actually achieve these goals is not a primary concern for these researchers.

A prime example is Nemu Kurotsuchi, the vice-captain of the 12th Division standing right in front of Luca.

As a close confidante of Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi, she has made some achievements in the field of research and often serves as an assistant in Mayuri's experimental projects.

However, the actual deputy director of the Technology Development Bureau was Akin, the third seat of the team, a professional researcher who had served time in the Maggot Nest with Mayuri Kurotsuchi.

Among the top ten chairpersons, two of them did not hold any position in the Technology Development Bureau at all.

Their main daily work involves providing escort and transportation for the other research teams when they are on missions.

However, what's quite interesting is that...

While the selection of the 12th Division's captain is still based on strength, it differs from other divisions in one important way.

That means that no items will be disabled during the Twelfth Division's Seat Officer Challenge!

Any props created by the participants themselves can be used freely.

This has led to a situation where, although the Twelfth Division and the Technology Development Bureau are not exactly the same, the overlap in their management is not low.

After all, it was just like when Luca fought Hisagi Shuhei during his graduation exam.

If top researchers are truly focused on developing weapons for combat, even Shinigami who lack knowledge in this area might not be a match for them, and the same applies to Shinigami who have mastered Shikai.

Having figured all this out, Luca felt much more at ease about his future life in the Twelfth Division and the Technology Development Bureau.

My current plan is to wait until this one-month 'internship' is over, and then try to get a high-ranking executive position.

This means that while gaining a certain status within the team, it also allows them to make an appearance in front of the other technicians from the development bureau.

With these prerequisites in place, it will be easier for him to continue learning more advanced practical techniques. As for Aizen?

As long as he doesn't provoke him, Luca has no time to deal with the affairs of the Technology Development Bureau, which is such a huge treasure trove.

"Luca, the captain wants to see you!"

Inside the laboratory of the Spiritual Machinery Modification Section of the Technology Development Bureau, a female researcher cautiously looked up and entered, speaking to Lukaton.

Luca, inside the room, frowned slightly, but put down what he was doing and turned around with a hint of helplessness.

"Why didn't the captain use the messenger machine to call me?"

However, when he took out a small tablet phone from his pocket and opened it to check, he found that there were many missed calls and text message notifications. Only then did he remember that he had put his communication device into silent mode in order to concentrate on his research.

At this point, nearly five years had passed since Luca joined the Twelfth Division.

Luca rose through the ranks from an ordinary squad member to become the third seat officer of the 12th Division, while also serving as the head of the Communications Technology Research Section of the Technology Development Bureau.

Even the so-called Communication Technology Research Department itself was a newly established department because Luca developed the Soul Society version of the 'Communication Machine' ahead of schedule.

The reason Luca stopped at these two positions is not because he no longer has the ability to climb higher.

Rather, it was because over the past five years, Luca had come to a profound realization.

The greatest help he received upon arriving in this world of death was not anything else, but rather the long lifespan of the Grim Reaper.

Yes, lifespan!
In the Soul Society, where people are often hundreds or thousands of years old, most Shinigami have a very weak concept of time.

Even though the Gotei 15 itself is a violent organization, its mission is to protect the Seireitei and fight against Hueco Mundo.

In reality, most of the time, the entire Soul Society remains in a very stable daily routine.

For Luca, a researcher and someone who was desperately eager to absorb the technological knowledge of Soul Society, this kind of life was a godsend opportunity for development.

It's important to know that even including all three previous dream-based time travels, Luca has only been involved in scientific research for a mere twenty years.

Most of these experiences were spent in a dreamlike, hazy state, with a significant amount of time actually spent growing and learning repeatedly in the dream world.

However, it is still nearly fifty years before the official storyline about Ichigo begins in the original work.

With such a long period of peace, Luca could not only learn all kinds of knowledge in the Soul Society, but also had time to slowly integrate and organize the complex technical system he had mastered.

This allows him to better integrate and complement the theoretical knowledge he gains from these various world artifacts.

Therefore, over the past five years, Luca has not been overly proactive in showcasing his talent to the outside world.

Instead, he calmed down and quietly studied and improved within the Technology Development Bureau, like an ascetic.

More importantly, Luca also possesses a bug-level device called the 'Core Key' that can assist in understanding and learning.

This has led him to develop a strange habit of habitually stabbing anything new he sees.

(End of this chapter)